10 Ways to Push to 110 Percent
10 Ways to Push to 110 Percent
By Mike Gustafson//Correspondent
The old sports cliché, “push yourself to 110%,” really doesn’t make sense. 100% is 100%. There is no 110%. What that extra 10% signifies, actually, is that you have not reached the definition of 100%. You were more at like 90%. And you just didn’t know it.
110% is more about perception: It’s about perceiving yourself at your maximum limitation, and then doing even more. It’s about finding a brand-spanking-new self-defined 100%.
But how can you find that extra 10%? Here are a 10 unique ways where, hidden between those long distance freestyle sets and never-ending 400 IM sets, you can discover another 10% just sitting around, waiting to be discovered:
10. Do ten minutes of dryland after practice....
